The Universidad Nacional Autónomo de México (UNAM) is Mexico's biggest and most prestigious public university, but it is much more than that. In 2007, the specially-built campus in the south of Mexico City called the University City, was declared UNESCO World Heritage Site for its architecture and for the murals created by leading Mexican muralists. It also has a large ecological reserve featuring the Espacio Escultórico, where art is integrated into nature and the environment. For Photo Walk Nº88, we went to check out these areas and photograph them. We then made our way by car to the Espacio Escultórico, still within the extensive grounds of the Ciudad Universitaria. Here the ancient solidified lava bed left behind by the Xitle volcano eruption and its natural environment have been conserved from development. First, we walked to the spectacular 120-metre circular sculpture which looked rather other-worldly and certainly not something you would expect to find among the concrete spread of Mexico City. Then we crossed over the road to where a series of gigantic metallic and concrete structures loomed out of the vegetation. We had fun taking photos in the multi-coloured sculpture called Coatl by artist Helen Escobedo and some of us did some nature photography.To cap it all, the weather was unusually hot and sunny and provided us with some beautiful blue skies for our backgrounds and put some colour in our cheeks.
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